We need your help! Planning the future of Fullstack Ruby
Hello Ruby friends!
TL;DR: please vote in this Mastodon poll or reply to this email to help shape the future of Fullstack Ruby!
I know you're never supposed to apologize for lapses in publishing content, but I'm sorry for the lapse in publishing content. 😅
There's a reason. Actually multiple reasons.
The first one is: I personally haven't been writing as much Ruby as I used to. My job working on various client projects for the web has had me doing a lot of frontend work with design systems and web components and all that jazz. Fun stuff to be sure! But not directly applicable to the goals of this publication.
Secondly, I'm frankly burnt out on Ruby on Rails. Sure, much of the technology still impresses me. And I do still engage with Rails apps for a couple of clients. But my confidence (or rather, lack thereof) in the direction of the framework and the dynamics of the politics surrounding the leadership bums me out. In the past I have publicly called for David Heinemeier Hansson to step down. I still believe he should do so. But with the launch of “Rails World”, that clearly is not happening. (Honestly, the fact DHH is even a speaker directly flies in the face of their Code of Conduct, which means that their CoC has no teeth. Booooo.)
Lastly, I am in the process of reshifting my content strategy on the web overall across a variety of projects. For context, I wrote about it here on my blog and touch on it again in a recent episode of Fresh Fusion. Essentially this means for each project I work on—Fullstack Ruby included—I'm having to evaluate what makes sense in light of launching a subscription service and what I feel excited about committing to (or not) in a way that will be sustainable over the long term.
In summary, I am actively in the process of evaluating the future of Fullstack Ruby. I'm trying to ascertain if it makes sense to continue working on it. If I did, it would be largely under the auspices of the aforementioned subscription service, and it would have a refocused mission around a couple of key technologies: Roda (the minimalist web toolkit spearheaded by Jeremy Evans) and Bridgetown (the static site generator and Roda-powered web framework I maintain).
Please vote in this poll on Mastodon and let us know if this is something you're keen to learn more about! Or reply to this very email to let your voice be heard. I appreciate the growth of the community around the Fullstack Ruby website and podcast to date, and I want to be respectful of your time and attention to make sure I'm giving you something truly valuable and useful. So your feedback is most welcome!
Thanks, my fellow Rubyists! Let's keep the flame of MINASWAN burning.
–Jared